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Stop Spinning Your Team’s Wheels: It’s Time To Revisit Your Working Agreements

A journey of a culturally diverse and distributed team that learned to uncover hidden impediments to create a better working environment for themselves.

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Jul 17, 2019 • 18 min read
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Summary

Meet Alex Kanaan as he tells a real-life story of how he was able to help a team he was coaching improve working relations and collaborate toward delivering better outcomes. The Agile coach believes that working agreements can help align a team in terms of expectations. In the story, he explains how he was allowed to coach a culturally diverse and distributed team and finally helped them understand and respect each other through self-discovery and self-improvement. Read the article for more insights into how the team collaborated and developed working agreements that bound them together.

Takeaways

  • Agile is really about changing the mindset of individuals to adopt a different working lifestyle.
  • The process of creating the working agreements can uncover opportunities for collaboration and alignment in cross-boundary teams helping them deliver better value.

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